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FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL APPROVES PROPOSED AGREEMENT ON AFRICAN FREE TRADE Nigeria is set to sign the framework agreement for the establishment of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The agreement establishing the AfCFTA would flag off the “Single Liberalised Market for Trade in Goods and Services” in Africa. The AfCFTA is a negotiated rules-based system, to establish the rule of law in trade, deepen and expand intra-Africa trade from its very low base of 14 percent. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) in its meeting recently gave the Minister of Trade & Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, the go-ahead to seal the agreement on behalf of Nigeria. The agreement is expected to be concluded during the forthcoming Extraordinary Meeting of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government scheduled for Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 2018. Besides, the Minister said the president also constituted a negotiating committee, made up of members of the organised private sector and businesses, including the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture. The AfCFTA was established in 2012 by all Heads of State and Government of the AU at their 18th Ordinary Session to implement the AU Agenda 2063 “Vision” for an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa. For Nigeria, Mr. Enelamah said the country would gain significantly through the expansion of market access for exporters of goods and services, spur growth and boost job creation. Besides, he said established rules-based trade governance in intra-African trade would invoke trade remedies as safeguards, anti-dumping and countervailing duties against unfair trade practices, including dumping, trans-shipment of concealed origin of products. #trade#economy#economic#commerce#africa#nigeria#government#governance#growth#development#job#products#exporter#export#import#importer#market

Still happening! month long feature on the @arthousecontemporary website, see link in bio to view some of my available work and watch my teeny interview! Also, kindly read below for comprehensive information about this work! ❤️ Work by Yadichina Ukoha-Kalu, Arthouse Contemporary’s #artistofthemonth. See link in bio. . The line drawings came to being as I moved away from purely representational art to the more abstract, I was going through a process where I began to get frustrated with the idea of only representing reality as it seemed, and I had recently seen a line drawing of a face, I began teaching self to make those line drawings, of faces or scenes, or objects, eventually I shifted from representing anything at all, as I became more conscious of that ardent process of making a mark, and the functionality of the simplest line as the start point of most drawings, I grew more interested in what I call a more primary process of drawing and getting a good understanding of how things worked at that level before I began to use them as building blocks for more complex things. "Thought lines" is an ongoing experimental research into the process of making a mark, the situations that prompt the decisions made while making these random line drawings, and how they could in some way reveal a state of things within myself...It is one of those ways, through which I can look at myself creating a truly exciting journey out of it. A big part of its future as it develops is making a tool out of it to be used by other people to possibly make that journey too. It also immediately suggests a language system aesthetically, something I don't think it's too far away from fundamentally.. - @yadichinma_ . Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu (b.1995), THOUGHT LINES I, Pencil on paper, 2017, 28.5 x 36.5 cm (11 x 14 in.) | Naira 100,000 . #arthousecontemporary#yadichinmaukohakalu#yadichinma#art#africanartist#contemporaryart#contemporaryafricanart#digitalmedia#film#painting#drawing